While I personally don't like the Ribbon interface, many of my users have become used to it.
Has there been any advancement on the ability to skin LibreOffice to look more MS Office-y? This would allow me to sneak it under people's noses more easily!
IIRC, the german public health insurance companies are basically companies who are competing with each other, but may not turn a profit.
It would be quite ironic if some billionaires will manage to basically set up socialized healthcare in the US this way, and out-compete the current HMOs!
The sad part is that I read an interview with some terrorist once, and he said something that hit a note (paraphrasing):
"You in the West, in movies like Star Wars identify with the rebels. Well, we also identify with the rebels, fighting against an evil over-encompassing empire".
I've gone so far as to repurpose a WOL-capable network card as a reset-on-lan device, because my always-on machine doesn't need waking, but inevitably if I'm on the other side of the country, it somehow manages to need rebooting.
There's a cryptocurrency called "GridCoin" which uses BOINC project computation (that's the distributed scientific computing project) as Proof-of-work.
Out of curiosity: IIRC, the iPhone projects some IR dots on the face, and reconstructs a 3D model based on the distortion of the projected pattern using a rather regular 2D camera.
Is that pattern fixed?
If so, would it be possible to block the projection, and "simply" show the sensor the pattern that should appear?
I bet it's not that easy, but i'd like to know why?
This is a huge problem - advertising, marketing and shadier news outlets are systematically exploiting the innate cognitive biases we all have.
They have always done this, but instead of an artform, this has become scientific. And it seems to work quite well (for them)
It's similar to Casinos, which also exploit well-known human mental defects - which is why casinos are usually heavily regulated. But you obviously can't do the same for communication.
The only kind-of protection against these assaults on our mental defects is education, and a change in the mind-set. But noone really has a short-term incentive to change either of those.
I also think this is a pure speculation-based bubble, especially because there is so much vested interest in keeping the price high (all those computing farms are a significant hardware investment)
Does anyone know if someone has tried to analyze the bitcoin blockchain in order to calculate a rough estimate how much bitcoin are actually used for non-purely speculative transactions?
Would this be possible?
I could swear that I once installed and ran some version of Debian on the first Android Phone, the HTC Dream.
Obviously super slow, and IIRC, the display worked via VNC. Was a fun little thing to show off back in 2009, though!
> but psychiatrists in clinical practice know that they work, for most people with clinical depression.
they don't know that as well as they might think - that's what the "evidence based medicine" thing is partly about.
In an area that is as loaded with emotions as medicine is (combined with a "slight" tendency of doctors to have huge egos) confirmation bias and other errors of perception run amok. Not to mention the muddy data/results/experiences you get because of the placebo effect. No wonder that, for centuries (if not millenia) even well-meaning doctors kept on killing their patients with their treatments.
I ran the code online, but can't find a way to see the lowest level of their stack, where the GoL is actually running?
I'd also love to see their VM running!
While you're right that Android or ChromeOS aren't 'real' Linux, I do think that They are very Linux-like. The point of "linux on the desktop" for me was always to break the OS monoculture that Windows created.
The whole Android/ChomeOS ecosystems are way more fun and hacker-friendly than Windows ever was. And that happened because of the underlying Linux systems, and the culture that goes with it, IMHO.
Am I missing something?
From what I can see, Crashplan's Pro offering costs 10$/device/month, which is not THAT much more expensive than the personal plan was.
I just checked, and it seems that their Crashplan's business plans cost 10$/per device (unlimited storage).
If I'm not overseeing anything, I think I'll be simply switching to that, because I've only had great experiences with them.
POP3 access to gmail still works for me, via Thunderbird? Google does seem to make you jump through some security hoops sometimes to confirm that you want to use an "insecure app", but that they block POP3 is news to me?
Blue Origins has not even flown a single orbital mission, so I think launching a satellite is still quite a long way off. Going up and down is a whole different beast than going orbital.
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Musk said there's a towel in the glove box, too!
This Starman is well prepared for whatever might come.
While I personally don't like the Ribbon interface, many of my users have become used to it.
Has there been any advancement on the ability to skin LibreOffice to look more MS Office-y? This would allow me to sneak it under people's noses more easily!
IIRC, the german public health insurance companies are basically companies who are competing with each other, but may not turn a profit.
It would be quite ironic if some billionaires will manage to basically set up socialized healthcare in the US this way, and out-compete the current HMOs!
Don't forget that that Chevy Pick-Up can only be refueled using a Chevy (R) gas hose with a weird shape.
The sad part is that I read an interview with some terrorist once, and he said something that hit a note (paraphrasing):
"You in the West, in movies like Star Wars identify with the rebels. Well, we also identify with the rebels, fighting against an evil over-encompassing empire".
I've gone so far as to repurpose a WOL-capable network card as a reset-on-lan device, because my always-on machine doesn't need waking, but inevitably if I'm on the other side of the country, it somehow manages to need rebooting.
How? That would be a god-send for cheap servers!
There's a cryptocurrency called "GridCoin" which uses BOINC project computation (that's the distributed scientific computing project) as Proof-of-work.
Out of curiosity: IIRC, the iPhone projects some IR dots on the face, and reconstructs a 3D model based on the distortion of the projected pattern using a rather regular 2D camera.
Is that pattern fixed?
If so, would it be possible to block the projection, and "simply" show the sensor the pattern that should appear?
I bet it's not that easy, but i'd like to know why?
This is a huge problem - advertising, marketing and shadier news outlets are systematically exploiting the innate cognitive biases we all have.
They have always done this, but instead of an artform, this has become scientific. And it seems to work quite well (for them)
It's similar to Casinos, which also exploit well-known human mental defects - which is why casinos are usually heavily regulated. But you obviously can't do the same for communication.
The only kind-of protection against these assaults on our mental defects is education, and a change in the mind-set. But noone really has a short-term incentive to change either of those.
I also think this is a pure speculation-based bubble, especially because there is so much vested interest in keeping the price high (all those computing farms are a significant hardware investment)
Does anyone know if someone has tried to analyze the bitcoin blockchain in order to calculate a rough estimate how much bitcoin are actually used for non-purely speculative transactions?
Would this be possible?
The interesting bit is that this method seems to work with way less training and processing power than usually required for these levels of accuracy.
Is there any information on whether this method benefits from more learning, and mor processing power?
Am I missing something?
I could swear that I once installed and ran some version of Debian on the first Android Phone, the HTC Dream.
Obviously super slow, and IIRC, the display worked via VNC. Was a fun little thing to show off back in 2009, though!
I've heard that relatively cheap solid state LIDARs are 'just around the corner' - do you know anything about those?
> but psychiatrists in clinical practice know that they work, for most people with clinical depression.
they don't know that as well as they might think - that's what the "evidence based medicine" thing is partly about.
In an area that is as loaded with emotions as medicine is (combined with a "slight" tendency of doctors to have huge egos) confirmation bias and other errors of perception run amok.
Not to mention the muddy data/results/experiences you get because of the placebo effect.
No wonder that, for centuries (if not millenia) even well-meaning doctors kept on killing their patients with their treatments.
I ran the code online, but can't find a way to see the lowest level of their stack, where the GoL is actually running?
I'd also love to see their VM running!
While you're right that Android or ChromeOS aren't 'real' Linux, I do think that They are very Linux-like. The point of "linux on the desktop" for me was always to break the OS monoculture that Windows created. The whole Android/ChomeOS ecosystems are way more fun and hacker-friendly than Windows ever was. And that happened because of the underlying Linux systems, and the culture that goes with it, IMHO.
Am I missing something?
From what I can see, Crashplan's Pro offering costs 10$/device/month, which is not THAT much more expensive than the personal plan was.
I just checked, and it seems that their Crashplan's business plans cost 10$/per device (unlimited storage). If I'm not overseeing anything, I think I'll be simply switching to that, because I've only had great experiences with them.
Well, the RoboCup has it's goals set way higher for decades now!
Id like to see Robo Baseball! Seems like a lower-hanging fruit.
POP3 access to gmail still works for me, via Thunderbird? Google does seem to make you jump through some security hoops sometimes to confirm that you want to use an "insecure app", but that they block POP3 is news to me?
This sounds like a simple ARP poisoning attack? No big deal?
Could you go in to more detail regarding the "10$ SSD/HD cards" and "couple of linux filesystem modules"?
They sound very interesting?
No love for the classic and important "Plan 9 From Outer Space"???
The Linux kernel STILL has an error message based on when this happened. Confused me a lot when I saw it the first time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Blue Origins has not even flown a single orbital mission, so I think launching a satellite is still quite a long way off. Going up and down is a whole different beast than going orbital.